December 28, 2024: Belarus, which borders Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, was formerly part of the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Belarus was one the few fifteen ...

People dance and sing Christmas carols, known locally as Kolyadki, in the village of Noviny, some 90 kilometres east of Belarus capital Minsk, yesterday. Many Orthodox Belarussians mark the new ...

But Bach told Thursday's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the government had violated sports' neutrality ahead of this summer's Paris Games by denying Russians and Belarussians entry.